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Lewis Strauss
(31 Jan 1896 - 21 Jan 1974)
American businessman and psychotherapist who played a pivotal role in shaping U.S. nuclear policy in the first decade of the atomic age. He was appointed one of the first five Commissioners of the newly created Atomic Energy Commission by President Truman. He resigned in 1950, but in 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Strauss as chairman of the AEC, and requested him to develop the Atoms for Peace program.
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Science Quotes by Lewis Strauss (1 quote)
Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter. … Transmutation of the elements, unlimited power, ability to investigate the working of living cells by tracer atoms, the secret of photosynthesis about to be uncovered, these and a host of other results, all in about fifteen short years. It is not too much to expect that our children will know of great periodic regional famines in the world only as matters of history, will travel effortlessly over the seas and under the and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a life span far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age.
— Lewis Strauss
Speech at the 20th anniversary of the National Association of Science Writers, New York City (16 Sep 1954), as quoted in 'Abundant Power From Atom Seen', New York Times (17 Sep 1954) 5.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
